New Step towards Artificial Photosynthesis: Photogeneration of Organic Compounds in the Inorganic Carbon-Hydrogen Peroxide-Phthalocyanine System

摘要

The attempts to model natural photosynthesis have been made since long ago. Back in the early 20th century, there were studies aimed to reproduce the fundamental biological process or its separate steps by means of simple photochemical systems [1]. Currently, the number of publications dealing with this topic increases in the avalanche-like fashion (Fig. 1). However, the attempts made did not result in the design of artificial physicochemical systems able to form organic products from carbon dioxide and water with simultaneous evolution of molecular oxygen under the action of visible light. It was not until 1969 that only one of the key functions of chloroplast was reproduced for this first time, in particular, photocat-alytic evolution of molecular oxygen from water under the action of light absorbed by synthetic analogs of chlorophyll [2, 3].